Seza Kutlar Aksoy


Seza Kutlar Aksoy is an award-winning Turkish children's author residing in Istanbul, Turkey. She is the younger sister of writer Onat Kutlar.

Biography

Seza Kutlar Aksoy was born in Gaziantep, Turkey.
She is a member of the Turkish section of the International P.E.N., TYS, and a member of the administrative board of the Turkish Association of Children and Youth Publications. She is nominated as the 2011 Turkey candidate for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's largest children's and youth literature award, and the second largest literature prize in the world..
Seza Kutlar Aksoy's stories have been published in children’s literature magazines including Redmouse and Milliyet Kids. Her radio play, Adventures of Memo was broadcast by the Voice of Turkey. One of her stories, Bluebird, was adapted and staged by Tiyatroom Group. Aksoy conducts regular literary sessions with children in schools on reading stories, dramatization and thinking about stories, students' own life or about life itself.

Pre-school

Aksoy won following prizes in children's literature: